IDP Curriculum

DDS Curriculum for Advanced Standing Learners: Courses by Level and Quarter

Our DDS curriculum is designed to evolve through continuous quality improvement, ensuring it meets the needs of our learners and the profession. Learners holding a dental degree from a foreign institution may enter through the International Dentist Pathway (IDP), a three-year advanced standing program that exempts them from Year 1 courses.

*Courses without listed units span multiple quarters, with grades awarded in the final quarter.

Quarter

Course #

Course Title

Units

Year Two, Summer

DentiSci 129

Introduction to Dentistry (IDP Only)

2.5

Year Two, Summer

DentSci 127

OroFacial Pain: Foundations for Diagnosis and Treatment

2

Year Two, Summer

PRDS 104

Introductory Biomaterials Science (IDP Only)

2

Year Two, Summer

PRDS 126

Removable Partial Dentures, Crown & Bridge, & Operative

6

Year Two, Summer

PCC 129

Introduction to Comprehensive Care IV

*

Year Two, Fall

Dent Sci 125

Fundamentals of Risk Assessment, Therapy, and Prevention I

2

Year Two, Fall

PCC 129

Introduction to Comprehensive Care IV

*

Year Two, Fall

PRDS 127

Complete Dentures, Endodontics, & Adv Restorative Technique

5.5

Year Two, Fall

SciMeth 117

Foundations of Scientific Inquiry

2

Year Two, Fall

PCC 111

Principles of Interprofessional Practice I

*